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Unhackable ? For How Long ?
by Andrew McCaskey
Political License
It’s always amazing to see how politicians fail to realize who might be listening. The governement in Australia is getting ready to release a new series of netbooks to 250,000 students. Pretty exciting stuff – RFID physical tracking, Windows7 Application locker. It’s to be released into what CIO Stephen Wilson calls “the most hostile environment you can roll computers into” – the local high school.
“At the physical layer, each netbook is password-protected and embedded with tracking software at the BIOS level of the machine. If a netbook were to be stolen or sold, the department can remotely disable it over the network. Even if the hard drive of the machine was swapped out or the operating system wiped, it would be useless to unauthorised users.
The department used the AppLocker functionality within Windows 7 to dictate which applications are installed.
Web access on the netbooks is filtered according to a corporate security policy (using McAfee’s SmartFilter technology) plus an additional SOCKS-based proxy client, which provides web filtering at the network layer.”
The only variable left is the challenge that had now been thrown down to the hacker community worldwide.
My prediction ? Pwned within three months. It’s not just the political class listening.
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